legal-fees
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-522 | Ruby Tang v. Somerset House Condominium Association, Inc., et al. | Maryland | 2025-10-29 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-fees state-court | Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to deny a statutorily guaranteed de novo evidentiary hearing after collecting the required fees, … | |
| 24-660 | Misop Baynun v. Bruce Hiltunen, et al. | Massachusetts | 2024-12-18 | Denied | Response Waived | appeals-court constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-fees religious-freedom | In accord with Supreme Court Rule 10(c), since a state court "has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decision… |
| 24-565 | Linnea W. v. Matthew P. | New York | 2024-11-20 | Denied | constitutional-rights counsel-representation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court-procedure | 1. May a state court elect to contravene its own state laws, which explicitly require the award of legal fees and representation of counsel, in violat… | |
| 24A282 | Linnea W. v. Matthew P. | New York | 2024-09-19 | Presumed Complete | custody-trial due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court | Whether the New York State Court of Appeals denied Petitioner her Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process, a fair trial and equal protect… | |
| 23-697 | Tony Evers, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Wisconsin v. Michael Dean, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-mandate civil-procedure costs district-court fees judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-fees sanctions sanctions-motion section-1927 | It is "well established that a federal court may consider collateral issues," including "motions for costs and attorney's fees," even after the underl… |
| 20-5296 | A. I. v. M. A. | New Jersey | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process expert-reliability judicial-bias judicial-system legal-fees standing trial-reversal | Should a litigant be fully responsible for legal and expert fees of a reversed trial when experts were unreliable and no bad faith is shown? |
| 19-1394 | Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response Waived | appeals civil-action civil-procedure civil-procedure-rooker-feldman civil-rights damages due-process federal-courts legal-fees pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-court standing state-courts state-employee-wages | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit misapplied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine |
| 19-8641 | Samir Hanna v. California | California | 2020-06-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | affidavit civil-procedure court-fees declaration in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-fees poverty pro-se-litigation redress | Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 19-7922 | Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals docketing-fee due-process legal-fees non-frivolous-appeal prison prison-discipline prisoner-rights standard-of-review standing | Whether 'some evidence' is required to support a finding on every element of a prison disciplinary offense, or if 'some evidence' supporting any singl… |
| 18-1225 | Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe | Second Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | attorney-client attorney-compensation attorney-fees civil-rights discharge-hearing due-process judicial-bias judicial-delay judicial-misconduct legal-fees quantum-meruit retaliation settlement-agreement | Whether deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for former client violates due-process, whether attorney was deprived o… | |
| 18-1136 | Beverly L. Hennager v. Troutman Sanders LLP | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees charging-liens civil-procedure civil-rights client-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics legal-fees pro-se-representation standing | Whether charging liens should be clarified to apply only to judgments obtained with the lawyer's assistance, not client funds, to protect constitution… |
| 18-765 | James H. Brady v. New York, et al. | New York | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings | Did the Appellate Division, First Department err in finding Respondents immune pursuant to Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976)? |